LinkedIn got hacked 4 years ago, data now being sold online
LinkedIn did not officially confirm how many accounts were breached.
Four years ago, when the Russian hackers managed to snoop into login details of about six million LinkedIn users, the service was emailing its users to tell them their account may be affected and suggested them to change it immediately.
Earlier this week, the same hacker who goes by the name ‘ Peace’ was reported selling 117 million user ID’s and passwords belonging to LinkedIn users on a illegal Dark web entity, The Real Deal, for 5 bitcoin ( around $2,200). LinkedIn did not officially confirm how many accounts were breached, but the matter seems to quite worse than it was imagined.
“It is only coming to the surface now. People may not have taken it very seriously back then as it was not spread,” one of the people behind LeakedSource told Motherboard, who reports this news. The information was kept as a secret with Russian hackers. LeakedSource provided Motherboard with a sample of almost one million credentials, which included email addresses, hashed passwords, and the corresponding hacked passwords.
If you are an old LinkedIn user and have not change the password since long we suggest to change the password as soon as possible.